Note: This update is intended to be read straight through without the spoilers. The spoilers will simply give some additional insights and character moments. Think of them as the DVD extras. Enjoy!Breagadoir looked around at his homeland. He and Harlequin had been the last two to step out of the time machine.
Ahead of them had come his heirs.
Sotal ("pride") was the first. He was the son of Breagadoir and Dahlia Goodfellow, the fairy. He had pursued a career in acrobatics as he loved the attention.
He had eventually married Countess Snipes even though he had wanted to be with Lana Hancock, who became his mistress. Lana later joined the Countess' coven...the coven that had brought about Sotal's untimely demise.
Next was Leithleach ("greed"), the son of Sotal and the Countess. Shortly after his birth (from a time machine, meaning that he came forth already a young adult), his father was done in by vampires and his mother had deserted him. He had pursued a career in music.
He had also indulged heavily in female companionship and drinking to try to deal with his feelings of abandonment. Finally, he found Benni. She had made him feel whole, complete, and wanted.
Leithleach went over to Hailey Shepherd's house to pursue his typical womanizing ways.
That's when he met Benni.
She was different. His charms didn't render her senselessly infatuated. Rather, she acted like she was waiting to be impressed. He was intrigued. He started giving up on pursuing any other women.
Finally, he was willing to commit. What he had previously seen as being caged...
Now just looked like freedom.
Leithleach and Benni gave birth to Craos ("gluttony"). She was from the future and was fascinated with two things: grilled cheese sandwiches and technology. She wanted to learn all she could about how things worked. She even became obsessed with the arcane and alchemy.
Her Uncle Diahl was an active teacher and the only man who was really involved in her life...until her mom introduced her to her co-worker, Romeo Rake. Craos proposed, not because she really wanted to, but because she needed to provide an heir. She figured she could always use a Simbot potion on him after he'd served his purpose.
The first child Benni and Leithleach had was named Timmy. Yes, Timmy the knight. He came from the past. And he wasn't an elf.
Timmy was not pleased that he wasn't selected as the heir.
The second-born child was a fitting heir. She was elven, though old. Diahl saved the day with a young again potion. That's what got Craos fascinated with the ways of alchemy.
She also got into inventing. Literally.
She basically viewed the whole heir thing as one big genetic experiment, so she just started following each heir around until they finally reached the seventh.
Next was Ead ("Envy"), the result of Craos' pairing with Romeo. The couple's first two children had been human, and therefore unsuitable heirs. After Ead was born, her parents still had two other children, just to make sure they had the right heir. Ead never felt as pretty as her human sister, as confident as her brother, and knew she was not as awkwardly cute as her blue elven sister nor was she as artistic as her green elven sister. To make her feel more special, her mother used a bottled genie potion on her.
She had gotten some positive attention from her father, but he disappeared right around the time her mother built that Simbot. Therefore, Ead sought affirmation elsewhere. The first male to give her romantic attention was Jack Bunch, but he was already married to Judy. Ead decided she would take what Judy had. After all, that genie mind control ability worked rather well when she sent Fiona McIrish in for that cheap plastic surgery. In no time, Jack was all hers.
The firstborn children were very human, and took strongly after Romeo, though they inherited witchcraft from Craos.
I gave Ead plain colors and a mask to go along with her feelings of inadequacy which were the root of her envy.
She is, literally, the middle child. Two human older siblings, two elven younger siblings. I legitimately wasn't sure if I was going with her as the heir, hence the two more after her, but that ended up fitting her story a bit more.
The firstborn, Brandi,
was just lovely and I was mildly disappointed she couldn't be more involved in the story, but I really enjoyed Ead's look and she really grew on me. She's rather endearing, really.
It took quite a while before Jack's family actually got upset about his illicit affair with Ead. I guess they all found her adorable and endearing as well.
Ead and her Jack had way too much fun having kids, but their kids kept registering on the blue slider and most lacked ear points. Finally, they gave birth to Ainmhian (lust). She was a destructive young lady.
Specifically, she liked breaking up marriages. Eventually, she decided she'd keep Rehman as her procreation partner. No marriage, no vows, no promises, but she knew she had a role to play in great-great-grandpa's route to the throne. Besides, after they had the appropriate heir, she could have fun breaking up her own relationship.
Ead and Jack had a lovely, but modest home. I moved Craos in with them so the genetics from grandma could help ensure an appropriate elven heir. It took more work than expected.
Kids 2-7 were blue slider genies. Only one had ear points.
The firstborn was very human, but rather lovely.
This was Ainmhian's original hairdo. Considering how much work they put into final having an elven child (she was their eighth child), they wanted those ear points on display!
She didn't have the evil trait, but she certainly did enjoy wrecking relationships.
After Ainmhian was born, Ead and Jack decided to have a traditional pregnancy.
Here is Ead with baby Bhelia while Ainmhian has a pillow fight with one of her older sisters. Janice, I think?
And here is child Bhelia with Ainmhian (after she'd accomplished the LTW of having her wine cellar) right before she and her fella took off for Twinbrook.
Bhelia was a rainbow slider child, but she had rounded ears. Ead was their miracle child.
Ainmhian and Rehman arrived in Twinbrook and proceeded to spend their first half day of residency trying for babies in the time machine. This resulted in five total children and only one child was an acceptable option for heir. Falsacht ("sloth") was that one child. He got along gloriously with his siblings and they formed a band.
However, unlike his more outgoing siblings, Falsacht was more of a quiet, internal processor. In fact, he once stood on the steps of city hall so wrapped up in his thoughts that several citizens thought he was simply a new statue. Eventually, the piano-playing introvert was discovered by Blaise Kindel while he was lost in thought in front of her house. The very athletic young lady and the very intellectual elf hit it off and were quickly wed...and took up residency in the main bedroom since Ainmhian had long ago broken up her own relationship with Rehman among so many other relationships in Twinbrook.
Here is the lovely home I built for them. I loved the winding sidewalk leading to the spiral staircase. It seemed fitting given how much less than straight forward Ainmhian is.
Ainmhian wanted to get the heir-making out of the way so that she could get back to her usual activities.
By the end of day one, they had four children. Four musical children.
And Ainmhian was back to her routine in no time. Rehman was not impressed.
A couple of days after the first four children had come out of the time machine, their older sister was born.
And they added a drummer to the band. They named the band "Walk in Time." (I stole it from an episode of "Doctor Who" from the Tom Baker years)
All of the kids came out as fairies, but only Falsacht was on the rainbow slider and he was also the only one with white wings. The others all got yellow like their father.
Incidentally, Falsacht's LTW was to max the medical career, but I found that boring, so I had him complete it, but stuck with the band storyline. As another odd footnote, Blaise is Harlequin's grandmother, so Falsacht is his own step-great-great-great-great grandfather.
Falsacht and Blaise had four children. The firstborn was the heir. She got the werewolf genes from her mother. They named her Fraoch ("wrath"). Fraoch had the LTW to max mixology and own a bar. With a little free time and the family fortune, this was accomplished rather quickly and easily.
To celebrate, she and her parents went on a vacation to China. It was here that Fraoch found her true calling: martial arts. As she was the final heir, she had no need of romance, marriage, or a mate.
When I imported the family into Isla Paradiso, Falsacht's wings had strangely transformed into a much cooler form.
No complaints. Confusion, maybe, but no complaints. I also had Blaise get the werewolf curse before the family left Twinbrook.
Deandre Wolf was very helpful in this.
Fraoch had three siblings, but her brothers weren't very interesting. Her sister, Susan, was a chip off the old block.
Falsacht enjoyed having a young musical prodigy around, but I'm glad she wasn't the heir as I found Fraoch's look much more striking.
In another strike of odd supernatural glitches, Fraoch's wolf form changed after she returned from China. It was originally this,
but then it changed into this.
While Fraoch had been working on karate, Falsacht and Blaise had a bit of an adventure themselves.
With the completion of Fraoch's LTW, Breagadoir had won the competition.
He was back to claim his throne.
But of course, he had come with the proof of his success. He'd unleashed the Seven Deadly Sims.
